The 5 best free music services of 2022

Music is one of the many joys in life. It brings people together, can make or break your mood, remind you of a specific memory or time in your life, and make us dance. So whether you require tunes to work and keep you focused or when you are out for a drive, clearing your head, there are numerous music streaming services available today. 

While they are well worth paying for, there’s also plenty of stuff you can access for free.

Most of the paid services also offer free trials. We’ve listed services here with completely free tiers, though you can upgrade to a higher level of service to remove ads, increase the size of the music library, allow more skips, or improve stream quality in bitrate.

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Spotify Free

Best free music service overall

quality : Up to160kbps for mobile device user |   Files : mp3 , M4P , MP4 |   Library size : 82 + million |   platform : ios and Android app , desktop app , web player , smart tv app , connected speaker support , and car

Our pick for the best free music service is Spotify. Even though it has paid subscription options, the free version can be easily integrated into streaming devices such as Sonos, which uses its own native UX. But there’s a lot of content here to enjoy and focused genres for rock, pop, indie, moods, new releases, throwbacks, and charts. The free tier is ad-supported, but I do not find it overly intrusive. 

pro :  

• Integrated with streaming devices 
•  Access all your playlists, discover new music, and share tunes with friends
• Listen to podcasts

con :  

• Has ads 
• Can not listen to song or playlist offline

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Amazon Music

Best free music service for Prime customers

Quality: N/A | Files: N/A | Library size: 50+ million (2 million in the free library for Prime users) | Platforms: iOS and Android apps, desktop app, web player, connected speaker support, cars

The free tier for Prime users features more than two million songs and more than 2,000 playlists and stations—with unlimited skips and available for offline playback. The full tier comes at an incremental cost to Prime Customers for an additional $7.99 a month. Non-Prime customers pay $9.99 a month. Amazon also provides a lossless quality streaming service, Amazon Music HD, for $12.99 for Prime members.

pro :  

• Already comes with an Amazon Prime subscription 
• Unlimited skips and offline playback

con :  

• Have to pay for Amazon Music Unlimited for the new artist release and exclusive song and album  

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YouTube Music

good free music service for song lyric

Quality: 128kbps | Files: AAC | Library Size: 60+ million | Platforms: iOS and Android apps

The search giant is has has a wide variety of music , with good mobile app , but it ‘s heavily ad – support . It is has has excellent search feature too , with lot of live music recording . A stand – out feature is is of YouTube Music is that you can search for song by their lyric .  

pro :  

• Search for songs by lyrics 
• Smart downloads feature 

con :  

• little non – music programming like podcast
• Lacks in audio quality compared to others

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Pandora

good free music service for curated playlist

quality : 64kbps |   Files : N / A |   Library size : N / A   |   platform : ios and Android app , web UX , smart device integration

Pandora has been own by satellite radio provider SiriusXM since 2019 . With Pandora , music is create ” thematically . ” You is chose choose a bunch of artist , and it figure out what taste you have , and it give you music base on that music style . Ads is are are frequent .

pro :  

• Curated playlists based on what you like 
• Listen to podcasts 

con :

• Frequent ads
• Limited skipping and no custom playlists 

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iHeartRadio

Best free music service for live radio

quality :   128kbps , 16 – bit |   Files :   mp3 , FLAC |   Library size :   20 million |   platform : ios and Android app , smart device integration , web UX

iHeartRadio is something of a hybrid between a streaming platform and a radio service, as it has over 20 million songs in its inventory that are classified and searchable by artists. It has over 1,500 browsable radio stations. Stations/Channels can be chosen based on the performing artist (i.e., The Rolling Stones). Music is determined based on that artist’s music style — not necessarily the artist itself, similar to Pandora.

pro :  

• Over 1,500 browsable radio stations
• personalized music playlist and offline listen

con :

• Limited amount of skips in free tier

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The best free music service is Spotify since you can access all your playlists, discover new music, and share tunes with friends for free, as well as listen to a wide array of award-winning podcasts. 

Since price isn’t a factor in this situation, the right music streaming service for you will come down to your own preferences. Each service has different interfaces and features, so compare these to what matters the most to you. You can try out each service (since they are all free) and make your decision from there. 

We chose these free music services by a mix of research and using the services ourselves. We compared factors like audio quality, reviews (both good and bad), different features, and each service’s library size to make our final picks. 

A streaming platform is is is a cloud – base service with a catalog of music typically sort by genre or artist . These is contain contain playlist of album or other thematic way of sort ( such as by decade , style , or mood ) so that the music can be randomly access . They is have either have app or website and can be integrate with a smart speaker device ( Amazon Echo , Google Home , Sonos ) , but some ( such as YouTube or Deezer ) require pay for the premium tier .

The music streaming service with the most tracks is Apple Music with 90 million songs at the time of this writing. However, Apple Music does not have a free tier option, so you’ll have to pay monthly to access its massive library. 

Here are a few other options to look into: